Professor Sascha Alda becomes Scientific Director at the b-it

Alda is currently Dean of the Department of Computer Science at the H-BRS and is the fourth Scientific Director of b-it from the ranks of the Department of Computer Science. Prof. Dr Kurt Ulrich Witt, one of the founding directors of b-it, was succeeded by Prof. Dr Paul Plöger in 2016, followed by Prof. Dr Nico Hochgeschwender in 2022, who will leave the university in September 2023. A suitable successor has been found in Professor Alda, who was a lecturer at b-it in the field of software engineering from 2005 to 2006 and is already well networked as a result.

His aim is to shape the digital transformation in exchange with business and society and to focus on data science and its application areas media, life sciences and autonomous systems.

The b-it is jointly supported by the four renowned universities and research institutions, the University of Bonn, RWTH Aachen University, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences and the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, and is financed by the b-it Foundation and other third-party donors.